Curtain pole and bracket therefor



July 7, 1931. c. w. KIRSCH CURTAIN POLE AND BRACKET THEREFOR Filed Jan. 24, 1927 Imfenwr liar/e5 .oz% 4/54/44 if 0T2 a Fatentecl July 7, 1931 i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CHARLES W. KIRSCH, STURGIS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGN OR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO KIRSCI-I COMPANY, OF STURGIS, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN CURTAIN POLE AND BRACKET THEREFOR Application filed January 24, 1927. Serial No. 162,991.

This invention relates to improvement in curtain r drapery suspension fixtures and more particularly to curtain poles and brackets therefor, the main object of the present invention being to provide simple and efi icient means associated with the brackets for holding the curtain pole non-rotatably engaged with said brackets.

Curtain poles are usually made of soft wood and are generally substantially cylindrical though frequently provided with surface carvings. However, whether smooth surfaced or carved, they are generally rotatable in the brackets.

The draperies are usually suspended from rings or the like mounted on the poles and associated with draw cords for causing them to travel longitudinally of the pole to separate and bring together the meeting edges of the draperies.

The present invention is intended particularly for use in connection with curtain poles provided with longitudinal grooves in which metallic curtain rods are mounted and equipped with slidable and easily operable carriers, this type of pole being described and claimed in a copending application filed of evendateherewith,SerialNumber162,990 and application Serial Number 164,693, filed J anuary 31, 1927. In the use of this type of pole it is necessary that the curtain rod be maintained grooved side up relatively to the brackets, the invention having for its more specific and particular object the provision of means on brackets of the conventional type usually sold with curtain poles and attachableto said brackets, for engaging the pole surface, whether smooth or otherwise, to hold the pole in the requisite position against rotation and longitudinal movement relatively to the brackets.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating several suitable embodiments of the invention Fig. 1 is a bottom plan view on the line 11 of Fig. 2, partly in elevation, showing a pole and an embodiment of the invention adapted to engage a pole to prevent rotation thereof constructed in accordance with the i0 invention.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

The conventional curtain pole bracket used is of substantially the shape shown in Fig. 2 and is made of Wood. This bracket 1 is provided with a recess 2 to receive a pole 3, the bottom of the recess 2 being substantially semi-circular and of slightly larger diam eter than the pole 3 so that the latter rests loosely therein and is easily rotatable relatively to the bracket and is also longitudinally movable relatively to the same. In using the conventional type of curtain pole the longitudinal movement thereof is objectionable because it will cause the opposite ends of the pole to project unequally beyond the brackets. In many instances the poles are provided with an especially treated or finished surface portion for the rings to slide upon and in such instances the rotatability of the pole relatively to the brackets is objectionable because it effects displacement of said surface portion which must necessarily be uppermost. These objections have been overcome by screws mounted in the front portions of the brackets and projected into the portions of the poles disposed in the recesses of the latter but this expedient is, in many instances, objectionable because the head of the screw is visible and not usually in harmony with the decorative features of the bracket.

To provide clamping means adapted for any shape of pole that may be used, I prefer to provide clamping means such as are shown in Figs. 1 and 2, having a radius or zone of adjustability amply suflicient to engage poles of various shapes and sizes. This device comprises a substantially L-shaped plate 16, the arms of which border the bottom and one side wall of the recess 2 of the bracket to which said member is secured. Pivotally associated with the end portion of the upper arm is an arm 17 having a series of perforations 18 in its outer end portion. Pivotal- 1y associated with one of said perforations is a downwardly depending arm 19 equipped with a pair of parallel projections 20 having perforations therein for the free passage of the threaded shank of a bolt 21, the nut 22 of which is now rotatably confined between said projections when engaged with the threaded shank of the bolt for contact with the intermediate face portion of the arm 19.. The head 23 of the bolt engages the projection 240]? the plate ltl having 'an open-ing for the-passage of said shank, said opening being of sufficient diameter relatively to said shank to permit said bolt to become variously angularly disposed relatively'to' said projection 24. The opposed side edges of the'arm v 19 and the upstanding armof-the-member 16'are provided with shal1owV-shaped recesses 25 or other suitable formations *to better engage the opposed surface portions of the pole disposed therebetween.

The operation of this device will be readily understood without further description. I cla-im as my-inventions- A curtain pole supporting bracket} p'rovidedw ith arecess to receive'an end portion-of a curtain pole and in which the latte'ris normally rotatable rneans mounted on-a side'face of the bracket and bordering the'saidrecess therein,'said meanscomprising a pair of opposed members projecting toward each other inwardly of the opposed walls of said recess and adapted to engage the pole surface to prevent rotation thereof relatively tosaid bracket, said members beingseparalole to release said pole. I

7 CHARLES W. KIRSCH. 

